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Dozens of Buffalo-area restaurants sue Cuomo for shutdown order Sen. Patrick M. Gallivan also is a petitioner in case challenging Cuomos executive order FacebookTwitterEmail Sen. Patrick Gallivan joined more than 90 restaurants and bars in a lawsuit challenging Gov. Andrew M. Cuomos shutdown order requiring them to close at 10 p.m. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron ALBANY — State Sen. Patrick M. Gallivan and more than 90 Buffalo-area restaurants have filed a petition challenging Gov. And...

More Albany school children get laptops as second shipment arrives District moves closer to 1:1 goal FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 The Albany city school district has now distributed more than 6,000 digital devices to students since the pandemic began last March, including a new shipment of around 2,000 Chromebooks that arrived in January. Pictured here are laptops donated by the Workforce Development Institute to students taking part in Albany High Schools Abrookin Career and Technical Center prog...

FEMA to pay New York $934 million for vaccine distribution FacebookTwitterEmail A sign on the University at Albany Campus directs traffic to the site of a new vaccine distribution center being built at the Northwest Gold parking lot on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to pay New York $934 million to cover the projected statewide costs of administering the COVID-19...

Troy man indicted in wifes slaying FacebookTwitterEmail Exterior of Samaritan Hospital on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Troy N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union TROY — A Rensselaer County grand jury indicted a city man for second-degree murder in the Jan. 15 strangulation death of his wife, according to papers filed with the court clerk. Taquan L. Evans, 35, was indicted in the death of Georlasia B. Evans near their residence on 104th St. between 12 a.m. and 8:40 a.m. ...

US airline orders Pratt & Whitney engines for 130+ jets [The Hour, Norwalk, Conn.] Jan. 26—A Frontier Airlines Airbus A321 in April 2019 at Albany International Airport in Colonie, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union) Photo: Will Waldron / Albany Times Union Pratt & Whitney announced its first major jet engine order since the start of the pandemic, with Frontier Airlines ordering engines for 134 aircraft en route from Airbus. It is Denver-based Frontier Airlines’ first-ever purchase from Pratt &...

Morning drive could be messy after 5 inches of snow in Albany FacebookTwitterEmail 17 1of17Schoolchildren navigate an afternoon snowstorm along Milton Avenue on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 2of17A DOT snowplow clears Milton Avenue on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less 3of17 4of17Northway traffic slowly n...

Coronavirus death at Rensselaer Countys nursing home Van Rensselaer Manor COVID-19 fatality is county homes fourth FacebookTwitterEmail Van Rensselaer Manor on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in North Greenbush, N.Y. The county nursing home announced a fourth COVID-19 death Jan. 20, 2021. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron, Staff Photographer / Albany Times Union Rensselaer County announced Wednesday night the death of a 93-year-old woman at the county-operated Van Rensselaer Manor from coronavi...

Environmentalists push for safe cleanup at nuclear site near Buffalo Jay Silver FacebookTwitterEmail Activists in the West Valley Action Network, an organization supporting the complete cleanup of a nuclear site near Buffalo, recently sent a letter to state Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, D-Buffalo, raising concerns about the site. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union WASHINGTON — Environmental advocacy groups in western New York want state officials to e...

As the coronavirus vaccine begins to roll out across the country, some companies are giving their employees incentives to get the vaccine, such as sti

Capital Region businesses hurting after migrant work programs stopped FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Rachel Boisvert of HURB Landscaping gives a tour of her facility on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in Colonie, N.Y. As COVID-19 halted international travel for many and dwindled down an already limiting immigration system, a number of local businesses, including HURB Landscaping, have suffered financially because they werent able to bring their usual migrant workers on H2B visas. (Will Waldron/Times Union...